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A few nights ago I watched a video of a religious guy prophesizing that this asteroid would annihilate the earth in 2029. Looks like we’re safe.

What do you guys think?

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stollcpa said:
friendlyatheist.patheos.com

Christian Website: The Bible Says an Asteroid Will Crash Into Earth in 2029

These people are insane.
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The main problem is that Apophis isn't big enough to "annihilate the Earth." If it did impact, it would cause local to regional damage, perhaps a tsunami if it lands in shallow water. Worst case scenario would be thousands of deaths and billions in damage. It would be devastating for those impacted directly, and it would dominate the news for a while, but humanity would keep trucking along.

Of the asteroids that really cause concern - the ones with a diameter of at least 1 km - 95% are already known and catalogued. That means there's a 5% chance of one we don't know about impacting us, and an impact like that only happens once every half million years, anyway. Long story short, that means there is approximately a 0.001% chance such an impact happens in your lifetime.
 
TheOriginalHappyGoat said:
The main problem is that Apophis isn't big enough to "annihilate the Earth." If it did impact, it would cause local to regional damage, perhaps a tsunami if it lands in shallow water. Worst case scenario would be thousands of deaths and billions in damage. It would be devastating for those impacted directly, and it would dominate the news for a while, but humanity would keep trucking along.

Of the asteroids that really cause concern - the ones with a diameter of at least 1 km - 95% are already known and catalogued. That means there's a 5% chance of one we don't know about impacting us, and an impact like that only happens once every half million years, anyway. Long story short, that means there is approximately a 0.001% chance such an impact happens in your lifetime.
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Interesting. So if one becomes a real danger do you think we have some secret weapon that could destroy it?
 
TheOriginalHappyGoat said:
The main problem is that Apophis isn't big enough to "annihilate the Earth." If it did impact, it would cause local to regional damage, perhaps a tsunami if it lands in shallow water. Worst case scenario would be thousands of deaths and billions in damage. It would be devastating for those impacted directly, and it would dominate the news for a while, but humanity would keep trucking along.

Of the asteroids that really cause concern - the ones with a diameter of at least 1 km - 95% are already known and catalogued. That means there's a 5% chance of one we don't know about impacting us, and an impact like that only happens once every half million years, anyway. Long story short, that means there is approximately a 0.001% chance such an impact happens in your lifetime.
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Anybody remember that tsunami on Boxing Day in Indonesia in 2004?

250,000 (at least) dead.

yeah, I forgot about it every once and a while too. So, to your point. Meh.
 
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TheOriginalHappyGoat said:
I doubt it. I mean, we could have all sorts of secret space weapons I don't know about, but I strongly suspect if a giant asteroid is headed our way, we're just f*cked.
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Yea, I pondered even shooting it out of space the junk would still strike?
 
stollcpa said:
Yea, I pondered even shooting it out of space the junk would still strike?
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If we caught it early enough maybe we could launch enough nukes that, if detonated just right, would knock it off course, just barely.

But we'd have to catch it really early, and we'd probably have to develop a lot of technology on the fly. Our best bet would be if an asteroid flies by, and we calculate its orbit, and discover that 7 years from now, it will pass by very closely again, and then 7 years after that, it will hit us. That gives us 7 years to prepare for a one-chance encounter to blow it off target enough that after the next 7 years, it misses instead of hits. There's no margin for error, and we are also totally dependent on the unlikely case that said asteroid will bless us with such a useful early-warning orbit.

Much more likely, in my mind, is a bright light shows up in the sky, telescopes watch it for a few days to predict its orbit, scientists discover that it's one of the 5% of giant f*cking space mountains we don't know about, and after watching it for a few days, they have a good idea of its orbit, and it might come close, and then after a few more days, they can safely say that it will, in fact hit, not on its next pass, but on this one, and a week after that we're all dead.
 
TheOriginalHappyGoat said:
If we caught it early enough maybe we could launch enough nukes that, if detonated just right, would knock it off course, just barely.

But we'd have to catch it really early, and we'd probably have to develop a lot of technology on the fly. Our best bet would be if an asteroid flies by, and we calculate its orbit, and discover that 7 years from now, it will pass by very closely again, and then 7 years after that, it will hit us. That gives us 7 years to prepare for a one-chance encounter to blow it off target enough that after the next 7 years, it misses instead of hits. There's no margin for error, and we are also totally dependent on the unlikely case that said asteroid will bless us with such a useful early-warning orbit.

Much more likely, in my mind, is a bright light shows up in the sky, telescopes watch it for a few days to predict its orbit, scientists discover that it's one of the 5% of giant f*cking space mountains we don't know about, and after watching it for a few days, they have a good idea of its orbit, and it might come close, and then after a few more days, they can safely say that it will, in fact hit, not on its next pass, but on this one, and a week after that we're all dead.
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I think that’s the likely scenario.
 
stollcpa said:
A few nights ago I watched a video of a religious guy prophesizing that this asteroid would annihilate the earth in 2029. Looks like we’re safe.

What do you guys think?

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Currently some asteroids can/do sneak through our early detection warning systems (it happened last month). However, within a few more years, those odds will be extremely unlikely. We have had asteroid destroying, space based weapons on earth & in near earth orbit for decades. We just like to keep them secret, as does China & Russia.

The larger asteroids are usually picked up early on, when their flight path comes anywhere near earth. It is mostly the smaller ones which avoid early warning detection systems.



Worry not

You won't feel a thing :O
 
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stollcpa said:
A few nights ago I watched a video of a religious guy prophesizing that this asteroid would annihilate the earth in 2029. Looks like we’re safe.

What do you guys think?

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Was the guy drinking, with snakes & dancing around, & speaking in tongues?

Relax, it was just Steve Bannon at a Trump rally.
 
stollcpa said:
A few nights ago I watched a video of a religious guy prophesizing that this asteroid would annihilate the earth in 2029. Looks like we’re safe.

What do you guys think?

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I would be more worried about China & Russia destroying our orbiting satellites. In the old days they would crash one of their cheap satellites into one of our very, very expensive/important satellites, & claim it was an out of control satellite, & an accident. Now we & China have expensive satellites, which are designed to kill/destroy our enemies satellites.

All this costs a hell of a lot of money, & they/congress hides it in their black/off limits budget appropriations.


Btw, you will know the end is near, when China invades Taiwan.





Beginning of the end/'end of days'
 
TheOriginalHappyGoat said:
If we caught it early enough maybe we could launch enough nukes that, if detonated just right, would knock it off course, just barely.

But we'd have to catch it really early, and we'd probably have to develop a lot of technology on the fly. Our best bet would be if an asteroid flies by, and we calculate its orbit, and discover that 7 years from now, it will pass by very closely again, and then 7 years after that, it will hit us. That gives us 7 years to prepare for a one-chance encounter to blow it off target enough that after the next 7 years, it misses instead of hits. There's no margin for error, and we are also totally dependent on the unlikely case that said asteroid will bless us with such a useful early-warning orbit.

Much more likely, in my mind, is a bright light shows up in the sky, telescopes watch it for a few days to predict its orbit, scientists discover that it's one of the 5% of giant f*cking space mountains we don't know about, and after watching it for a few days, they have a good idea of its orbit, and it might come close, and then after a few more days, they can safely say that it will, in fact hit, not on its next pass, but on this one, and a week after that we're all dead.
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I hope I’m still young enough to enjoy that party.
 
stollcpa said:
A few nights ago I watched a video of a religious guy prophesizing that this asteroid would annihilate the earth in 2029. Looks like we’re safe.

What do you guys think?

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Google Nibiru/Planet X. I believe it comes this way about every 3,600 years. It won't return until 2900 AD.

Google 'The 12th Planet'.

Sitchin was way ahead of his time.







'Those who from heaven, to earth came'

:O
 
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One reason why we shouldn’t be worried about anything related to space:
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billyhillui said:
Google Nibiru/Planet X. I believe it comes this way about every 3,600 years. It won't return until 2900 AD.

Google 'The 12th Planet'.

Sitchin was way ahead of his time.







'Those who from heaven, to earth came'

:O
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I had a buddy a few years older than me who was so into Sitchin, UFOs, and ghosts. From my 8th grade through a couple years after college he kept trying to convert me from skeptic. I read the books, we went on UFO hunts, went to haunted houses. Still have never seen anything.

And I sure don't believe the anunnaki could possibly live on a planet with a 3600 year orbit.

It was so frustrating, he was a very smart guy. But he really bought into it and the bigger the lack of evidence the bigger the proof of conspiracy. After years of that, I hate conspiracy theories.

He was convinced that the elite, the Rothschild family for example, were anunnaki.
 
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Marvin the Martian said:
I had a buddy a few years older than me who was so into Sitchin, UFOs, and ghosts. From my 8th grade through a couple years after college he kept trying to convert me from skeptic. I read the books, we went on UFO hunts, went to haunted houses. Still have never seen anything.

And I sure don't believe the anunnaki could possibly live on a planet with a 3600 year orbit.

It was so frustrating, he was a very smart guy. But he really bought into it and the bigger the lack of evidence the bigger the proof of conspiracy. After years of that, I hate conspiracy theories.

He was convinced that the elite, the Rothschild family for example, were anunnaki.
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Exotic metals have already been found near the Roswell crash site, which scientists can't explain.
 
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stollcpa said:
Interesting. So if one becomes a real danger do you think we have some secret weapon that could destroy it?
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They won't destroy it but may deflect it a little.... They are already doing an experiment to determine if they can deflect an asteroid...click here. I hope they don't screw around an make it hit earth. :)
 
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Marvin the Martian said:
I had a buddy a few years older than me who was so into Sitchin, UFOs, and ghosts. From my 8th grade through a couple years after college he kept trying to convert me from skeptic. I read the books, we went on UFO hunts, went to haunted houses. Still have never seen anything.

And I sure don't believe the anunnaki could possibly live on a planet with a 3600 year orbit.

It was so frustrating, he was a very smart guy. But he really bought into it and the bigger the lack of evidence the bigger the proof of conspiracy. After years of that, I hate conspiracy theories.

He was convinced that the elite, the Rothschild family for example, were anunnaki.
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"And I sure don't believe ..."

Why not? Are you saying it's not possible? You/we don't know what you don't know.

Can you prove aliens don't exist?

Do you believe there is a 'Planet X/Nibiru? Scientists/astronomers already agree there is, & it is very, very large, & comes into earth's view about once every 3,600 years. Much of what Sitchin wrote has already been confirmed.


Btw, why would NASA/any gov. on earth tell the people, if those governments knew of a potential cataclysm which was eminent in their near future was going to happen? Read NASA's 1960 Brookings Institution's report on UFO disclosure. They confirm, that disclosing the existence by governments, of ETs, would do much more harm & damage than good.

Do you believe our government can't tell a weather balloon from a ufo?

Explain the 'Wedge of Aiud'?



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/life...sion-of-exotic-materials-from-ufos/vi-AAKbAzq

Do you know what can happen to gov. employees who break their NDA contracts?

They can literally lose all their gov. pay, benefits access & more.
 
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They won't destroy it but may deflect it a little.... They are already doing an experiment to determine if they can deflect an asteroid...click here. I hope they don't screw around an make it hit earth. :)
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That solar sail attachment for dangerous, near earth asteroids is in the works now. Several countries are now working on it, & in 2010, Japan successfully, used a solar sail on one of it's spacecraft.

Experts say using nuclear weapons or lasers to destroy an incoming asteroid, would make the problem worse, by having many, many smaller asteroids to deal with after the explosion, instead of just one.
 
billyhillui said:
"And I sure don't believe ..."

Why not? Are you saying it's not possible? You/we don't know what you don't know.

Can you prove aliens don't exist?

Do you believe there is a 'Planet X/Nibiru? Scientists/astronomers already agree there is, & it is very, very large, comes into earth's view about once every 3,600 years. Much of what Sitchin wrote has already been confirmed.


Btw, why would NASA/any gov. on earth tell the people, if those governments knew of a potential cataclysm which was eminent in their near future was going to happen? Read NASA's 1960 Brookings Institution's report on UFO disclosure. They confirm, that disclosing the existence by governments, of ETs, would do much more harm & damage than good.

Do you believe our government can't tell a weather balloon from a ufo?

Explain the 'Wedge of Aiud'?



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/life...sion-of-exotic-materials-from-ufos/vi-AAKbAzq

Do you know what can happen to gov. employees who break their NDA contracts?

They can literally lose all their gov. pay, benefits access & more.
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I would say that the default position is that since I have seen no proof, I do not accept ghosts/ufo's, etc.

I have read scientists do think there is a planet out past Pluto. I haven't read that they " agree there is, & it is very, very large, comes into earth's view about once every 3,600 years". And back to Sitchin, if that planet is that far out, how is there enough heat for anything to live on it?


Art Bell pretty much proved one can make a lot of money on this stuff.
 
Marvin the Martian said:
I would say that the default position is that since I have seen no proof, I do not accept ghosts/ufo's, etc.

I have read scientists do think there is a planet out past Pluto. I haven't read that they " agree there is, & it is very, very large, comes into earth's view about once every 3,600 years". And back to Sitchin, if that planet is that far out, how is there enough heat for anything to live on it?


Art Bell pretty much proved one can make a lot of money on this stuff.
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"I haven't read that they agree..."

Now, the majority of scientists do agree it is out there. I don't confirm everything Sitchin stated, & I don't know if life is on that body/planet, but time has proven, there is much we still don't know. Supposedly, we know more about our moon, than our oceans/the deepest parts of our oceans.

I disagree with Bell (when he was alive) & Noory putting some guests on their programs, who were obviously frauds, conmen, liars & worse. They did however, put on reputable guests, who had informative discussions, as well.




Explain the 'Wedge of Aiud'?





'We don't know what we don't know'
 
billyhillui said:
There needs to be a LOT more 'non political' threads.









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I agree. I can’t speak for other conservatives but here’s what I think. I’ve been a fighter (not physical) my whole life. Had I not been I’d be slopping hogs right now.

I despise the progressives in the house and senate and president just as bad as the democrats/liberals/socialists on here hated Trump, McConnell and other republicans.

They hammered them every day on here. Now I am supposed to play nice with Biden and the idiots running the democrat party. Maybe I’ll give in and shut up but it’s not easy.
 
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I agree. I can’t speak for other conservatives but here’s what I think. I’ve been a fighter (not physical) my whole life. Had I not been I’d be slopping hogs right now.

I despise the progressives in the house and senate and president just as bad as the democrats/liberals/socialists on here hated Trump, McConnell and other republicans.

They hammered them every day on here. Now I am supposed to play nice with Biden and the idiots running the democrat party. Maybe I’ll give in and shut up but it’s not easy.
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Believe it or not, five years ago, I was even more conservative than you.


I believe these 'things'/presidents, are decided by a higher power, & we have less control than we know.







'We don't know what we don't know'
 
billyhillui said:
"I haven't read that they agree..."

Now, the majority of scientists do agree it is out there. I don't confirm everything Sitchin stated, & I don't know if life is on that body/planet, but time has proven, there is much we still don't know. Supposedly, we know more about our moon, than our oceans/the deepest parts of our oceans.

I disagree with Bell (when he was alive) & Noory putting some guests on their programs, who were obviously frauds, conmen, liars & worse. They did however, put on reputable guests, who had informative discussions, as well.




Explain the 'Wedge of Aiud'?





'We don't know what we don't know'
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It is a piece of aluminum. It could have come from anywhere. One possible scenario, an excavator was working nearby and in some mud, a tooth fell off and sank to the bottom. It lay there a few years next to mastadon bones where it was found.
 
Marvin the Martian said:
It is a piece of aluminum. It could have come from anywhere. One possible scenario, an excavator was working nearby and in some mud, a tooth fell off and sank to the bottom. It lay there a few years next to mastadon bones where it was found.
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The strata/placement where that item was discovered, was not previously disturbed, say the experts & those who found it. Nobody can place that part on anything known to man, at any time thus far.

If it came from an "excavator" or other machine, which one, model & brand? Nobody can answer that.

"One possible scenario ..."

There is no proof of this. Zero.


https://factslegend.org/14-interesting-aluminum-wedge-of-aiud-facts/

Fact 9: Oxidation tests dated the wedge, at at least 300 years old. Aluminum wasn't around before 1808. :O


Do you actually think our government can't tell the difference between a 'weather balloon' & a ufo? :)

Btw, ever been to Mongolia? How do you know it really exists?

If you believe everything our government tells us, good for you.






Jesse Marcel
 
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billyhillui said:
The strata/placement where that item was discovered, was not previously disturbed, say the experts & those who found it. Nobody can place that part on anything known to man, at any time thus far.

If it came from an "excavator" or other machine, which one, model & brand? Nobody can answer that.

"One possible scenario ..."

There is no proof of this. Zero.


https://factslegend.org/14-interesting-aluminum-wedge-of-aiud-facts/
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If it was undisturbed, how did the aliens put it there? There is no proof that aliens put it there either. Of the two possibilities, one that aliens came to earth and ditched a piece of aluminum that survived thousands of years or an excavator working nearby lost a tooth 10 years earlier, the latter sounds far more plausible.

Read the skepticism points at https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Wedge_of_Aiud
 
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Marvin the Martian said:
If it was undisturbed, how did the aliens put it there? There is no proof that aliens put it there either. Of the two possibilities, one that aliens came to earth and ditched a piece of aluminum that survived thousands of years or an excavator working nearby lost a tooth 10 years earlier, the latter sounds far more plausible.

Read the skepticism points at https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Wedge_of_Aiud
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I did, & nobody, including them has ever placed this particular part, on any known machinery, excavator or anything known to man.

If it goes to something, give us the model, brand & date these things/machines were made?
 
Marvin the Martian said:
OK, give me the model, brand, and date of the alien device that lost it?
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So the 'majority' are always right?

For centuries, mercury was widely used (by all levels of society) to treat melancholy, constipation, syphilis, influenza, parasites, ect., ect...

Was the 'majority' right then?






'We don't know what we don't know'

:O
 
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